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Floudas wins computing in chemical engineering award

by Steven Schultz

Sept. 23, 2006 8:58 p.m.

The American Institute for Chemical Engineers has selected Princeton's Christodoulos Floudas to receive its 2006 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award.

The award recognizes "outstanding contributions in the application of
computing and systems technology to chemical engineering." Floudas, a
professor of chemical engineering, will receive the award and deliver
an address at the organization's annual meeting in San Francisco the
week of Nov. 12.

Floudas is an authority in mathematical modeling and optimization of
complex systems at the macroscopic and microscopic level. His research
interests lie at the interface of chemical engineering, applied
mathematics. operations research and computational biology.

A Princeton faculty member since 1986, Floudas is the author of two
graduate textbooks, "Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Optimization" and
"Deterministic Global Optimization." He also has co-edited seven books
and monographs, written more than 200 refereed publications and
delivered more than 300 invited lectures and seminars. He is the chief
co-editor of the "Encyclopedia of Optimization."